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Article: The Beat goes on: And on -- stunningly detailed biography of Allen Ginsberg offers too much information
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- January 14, 2007
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Biography
I Celebrate Myself
The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
By Bill Morgan
Viking, 657 pages, $29.95
He's the hairy Zelig of popular culture. His bearded,
bespectacled face could be the focus of a Mensa "Where's Waldo."
Look! There's Allen Ginsberg in New York, helping to found the
Beat Generation with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. There he
is, 50 years ago, reading his breakthrough poem, "Howl," to a
stunned San Francisco audience.
Over there he's with Bob Dylan as the singer goes electric in the
mid-'60s and again up on stage with him a decade later during the
wild Rolling Thunder Review.
He's chanting over in Lincoln Park during the 1968 Democratic ...